extravagancy
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The Chinese regard the West's failure to make use of excrement as "extreme extravagancy," says Wittwer.
From Time Magazine Archive
No, sooth, sir; my determinate voyage is mere extravagancy.
From Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Pantagruel one day, to refresh himself of his study, went a-walking towards St. Marcel's suburbs, to see the extravagancy of the Gobeline building, and to taste of their spiced bread.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by Peter Anthony Motteux
No enthusiasm ever reached to such a pitch of extravagancy as that: a spirit may be an illusion; a body is a real thing, an object of sense, in which there can be no mistake.
From Evidence of Christianity by William Paley
I had thought all such extravagancy perished with the Launcelot and Palomides of your book.
From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by James Branch Cabell
Long gone are the extravagancies of Granit Xhaka, in exchange for a far more acceptable and even-tempered Rice, who is a far better footballer anyway.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2024
But Venus Observed is modern, sophisticated, drawing-room bred, .and its ironies, at times, stare down its extravagancies as arrant trespassers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such extravagancies cannot but detract from scientific validity.
From Time Magazine Archive
But such extravagancies are studiously repudiated and repressed by the school to which young Rapid belongs.
From Riding Recollections, 5th ed. by G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville
“Captain Masterson is most loyal and zealous, but given to slight extravagancies in such matters,” amended the Judge.
From The Bondwoman by Marah Ellis Ryan
